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2020 Bath County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bath County, VA went without power for an average of 35.9 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 225th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bath County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 1, 2020 17:45 | November 2, 2020 17:45 | 1d | 3,398 | 13K |
| 2 | August 6, 2020 12:45 | August 7, 2020 02:30 | 13h 45m | 2,464 | 5,920 |
| 3 | June 8, 2020 00:45 | June 8, 2020 12:30 | 11h 45m | 1,709 | 1,360 |
| 4 | November 16, 2020 17:15 | November 18, 2020 14:15 | 1d 21h | 1,106 | 25K |
| 5 | June 17, 2020 14:15 | June 17, 2020 19:45 | 5h 30m | 925 | 1,539 |
| 6 | April 8, 2020 10:00 | April 9, 2020 00:45 | 14h 45m | 814 | 5,319 |
| 7 | April 30, 2020 00:45 | April 30, 2020 10:00 | 9h 15m | 631 | 1,272 |
| 8 | May 21, 2020 14:30 | May 21, 2020 15:15 | 45m | 594 | 439 |
| 9 | March 30, 2020 12:45 | March 31, 2020 00:30 | 11h 45m | 582 | 1,516 |
| 10 | January 12, 2020 05:30 | January 14, 2020 13:45 | 2d 8h | 526 | 26K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bath County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARC Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 20.5 hrs | 4.55 | 5.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Virginia's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,010 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bath County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bath County, VA annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/virginia/bath-county